8/19 Machine learning people: what would you recommend for a reference
on pattern classification? It seems Duda & Hart is the classic,
but it's 30 years old -- is it still relevant? Any other
exceptional texts? Thanks.
\_ Tom Mitchell's book Machine Learning?
\_ I am told there aren't exceptional ML books. Stuart used
Mitchell's book, and Bishop's neural network book.
\_ if you want something not very mathematical, there are plenty of
books out there that will teach you how to use a given
software package to do what you want.
if you want to understand what's happenning, i really like
Hastie, Tibshirani and Friedman's book, the Elements of
Statistical Learning. Duda&Hart is outdated and is pretty naive:
there are lots of interesting links in ML, and D&H does not
notice them (even the second edition, which is significantly
revamped). Bishop's is very nice, but it doesn't cover a lot
of topics. i haven't taken a good look at Mitchell's book, but
i would pick hastie/tibsh/fried if i had to teach a class. |
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